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February 12, 2002

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M. Hockey Continues to Rise in Rankings, Reaches No. 7

By wpengine | February 12, 2002

Riding an eight-game winning streak, the Cornell men’s hockey team climbed another notch in the Feb. 11 USCHO.com poll. The seventh-place ranking is the highest the Red has been this year. Furthermore, Cornell was one of four teams to receive a first-place vote.

Denver remained in the No. 1 spot with 21 first place votes, after taking 3 of 4 points in its home series against unranked Minnesota-Duluth over the weekend. St. Cloud swept Michigan Tech, and New Hampshire handily beat Providence 5-2 Sunday, as both teams stayed put in the No. 2 and No. 3 places respectively. The Huskies acquired 13 first-place votes, while the Wildcats garnered five.

Minnesota and Michigan St. swapped places, as the Spartans fell to No. 5 after splitting with Notre Dame.

Maine fell three spots to No. 10 losing to BC on Friday, and Merrimack on Saturday. BU moved up to eighth, and Michigan rose two notches to ninth in the poll. Alaska-Fairbanks made the most significant jump, after routing Ohio St. 6-3, and 6-1. The Nanooks moved from No. 14 to No. 11.

Rounding out the rest of the top-15 are No. 12 UMass-Lowell, No. 13 Northern Michigan, No. 14 Northeastern and No. 15 Western Michigan. Harvard was the only other ECAC to receive votes (2) after beating Vermont 6-0. However, the Crimson hurt themselves by losing to BC yesterday in the Beanpot consolation game.

Cornell also sprang up to eighth in the Pairwise Rankings.

Listed are the current conference leaders in men’s D I hockey: Michigan and Michigan St. (CCHA), Wayne State (CHA), Cornell (ECAC), New Hampshire (HEA), Mercyhurst (MAAC), and Denver (WCHA).

Archived article by Sun Staff

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Slope Day Committee Holds Open Forum

By wpengine February 13, 2002

Debates regarding Slope Day drug and alcohol limitations continued last night as the Slope Day Steering Committee opened its discussion to the Cornell student body for the second evening in a row. Roughly forty students attended this forum to discuss the goals of the steering committee and critique their preliminary recommendations. Formed by President Hunter R. Rawlings III, the committee was established to formulate recommendations to prevent the substance abuse related incidents that can occur on Slope Day. Addressing the student contingency, committee members began the forum with a definition of their Slope Day goals, including: offering a festive occasion to be celebrated by the Cornell community, guaranteeing the public health and safety of participants (which includes reducing the risk posed by alcohol-related incidents), creating a civil, responsible Slope Day community, compliance with state, city and university policies and laws, restricting festival participants to the University community and their guests and inhibiting interference with classes held on that day. In efforts to accomplish these goals, the committee’s preliminary recommendations for Slope Day included providing entertainment on the Slope, providing some sort of meal on the Slope, permitting students of legal age to bring soft alcoholic beverages in unopened cans. The final recommendation was to fence off the Slope to create staff checkpoints which would limit attendance to the Cornell community and their guests and distinguish those permitted to drink by issuing “over 21” and “under 21” wristbands to participants. While establishing their goals and recommendations, the committee emphasized the importance of Slope Day to the Cornell community and their interest in its continuity. “We believe in Slope Day,” said Kent Hubble ’67, dean of students and chairman of the steering committee, as he recognized the campus-wide community that Slope Day generates. While most students agreed that limiting alcohol consumption to soft-alcoholic beverages would reduce the drinking-related injuries and illnesses associated with Slope Day, many agreed that the proposed measures would result in more harm by encouraging unsupervised pre-parties and post-parties and by enticing underage students to drink high concentrations of hard alcohol in small quantities to avoid being caught with alcohol. “The University policies of restricting the total amount of beer you can bring does not allow underage students to bring alcohol on the Slope. This encourages students to bring hard alcohol in plastic bottles and ultimately does more harm than good,” said John Pantalena ’02. Other students believed that the abuse of alcohol on Slope Day was attributable to a campus-wide culture that promotes underage and binge drinking. “We have a culture of drinking. Slope Day promotes that by its nature,” said Amanda Schlager ’03. “The optimal proposal would be to provide another option for students that doesn’t involve alcohol…. Hopefully, the committee will pass a concert.” While recommendations regarding alcohol limitations generated discussion, recommendations made by the committee to fence in the Slope were met with adamant opposition from both the student body and a statement written by President Rawlings in response to the preliminary recommendations. “I think people are opposed to the fence and I think we’ll get rid of it,” said Uzo Asonye, president of the Student Assembly (S.A.) and member of the steering committee, acknowledging the proposed fence’s controversy and its general lack of acceptance. However, Asonye and other committee members were pleased with the turnout and student feedback that both forums generated. “I think we got a lot of good ideas,” Asonye said. “Students should take this opportunity to e-mail committee members and voice their opinions.” Also pleased with student participation in the forum was Scott Belsky ’02, former co-chair of the Student Activities Finance Commission (SAFC) and member of the steering committee. Referring to the University’s concern regarding liability issues associated with Slope Day in addition to its concern for the participants’ health, he appreciated student concern with the provisions and said, “As students, our priority is not liability.” “We take the comments from the students very seriously and they will certainly inform our deliberations as we prepare our final recommendations for the president,” added Timothy Marchell ’82, director of Alcohol Policy Initiatives and member of the steering committee. Planning to incorporate the student feedback into further Slope Day deliberations, the committee plans to meet again throughout the semester to finalize festival recommendations to be approved by President Rawlings. Archived article by Ellen Miller
Students Voice Concerns At CIT ResNet Discussion

By wpengine February 13, 2002

Students voiced their concerns about the ResNet rate increase and environmental awareness at a forum held by Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) last night. Both CIT staff and students considered the increasing price of ResNet, the residential dorm network service, from $205 annually this year to $400 beginning next fall. “Using the guidelines that the University has given us, we have no other options,” said Wes Kahle, director of customer services and marketing for CIT. Searching for other options, students mentioned the possibility of bringing the off-campus RoadRunner cable service into dorm rooms. Kahle, however, said what ended that possibility for them. “Behind the scenes there is more than just cable,” he said, alluding to physical obstacles to installing RoadRunner on campus. One by one, student proposals such as using the free and wireless RedRover service were ruled out as not feasible. “There are not many simple solutions at Cornell,” Kahle said. The students present, however, resisted the suggestion that this issue is resolved. “Affordable, high-speed, Internet access should be a fundamental student right,” said Abeezer Tapia ’02, chair of the Student Assembly’s (S.A.) CIT committee. “Some part of the University needs to pick up the slack and make ResNet affordable.” “ResNet needs to be in financial aid packages,” said Funa Maduka ’04, minority representative on the S.A. “How are we going to help students afford this?” Polley McClure, vice president for Information Technologies, explained the difficulties with helping students afford ResNet for next year. “Decisions on things like what is going to be funded through tuition or housing is decided in the fall. It’s not possible to address next year’s problem this late in the year.” Rhea Thomas ’04 did not pay for ResNet her freshman year and used the free CIT computing labs for her work. “I felt it was ridiculously priced then,” she said. Thomas and others have complained about the limitations of CIT computing labs. “It seems like the size of North has increased, but the labs haven’t,” said Scott Selikoff ’03. Now living off campus, Thomas pays $125 annually for DSL service, a high-speed connection over the phone line. “I wouldn’t think of moving back to campus because it’s too expensive,” she said. In a comparison done by Selikoff, ResNet is $23 more expensive a year than RoadRunner for one user. RoadRunner, however, can be split by several residents. One student living in a house with three other residents would pay only $128.05, according to his calculations. Other students also expressed concerns on how CIT’s activities affected the environment. Garrett Meigs ’04 pressed CIT to use 100 percent recycled paper in their public computing labs. The labs currently use 30 percent recycled paper. Other environmental issues addressed the use of Energy Star products in the computer labs. Energy Star saves electricity by reducing the electric demand of computers when not in use.Archived article by Peter Norlander